The Ministry of Magic spent a year magically constructing a huge stadium on Dartmoor for the Quidditch World Cup final in August 1994 (Pm). The other knock-out matches for the 1994 tournament would have also used this stadium.

The stadium was approached through a wood, a twenty-minute walk along a lantern-lit trail. It had immense gold walls, suffused with a mysterious golden light which seems to come from the stadium itself, and with Muggle-Repelling Charms on every inch of it. The stadium was huge -- Harry thought that ten cathedrals would fit comfortably inside it -- and it seated 100,000 people. A Ministry task force of 500 worked on it for a year (GF8).

Inside, a giant blackboard opposite Top Box was the scoreboard and also showed advertisements. The fans received velvet-covered, tasselled programs when they showed their large parchment tickets. The Top Box provided the prime seats: about 20 purple and gilt chairs (GF8).

Travel to the stadium, which was located on Dartmoor, a "nice, deserted moor" (GF6), was quite a logistical feat. The Ministry had to stagger the arrivals: people with cheap tickets had to arrive two weeks early. A few used Muggle transport to get there, but most used Portkeys or Apparated. To accommodate the throng, two hundred Portkeys were placed around Britain, timed to bring people in on a schedule. Portkeys were also distributed to other countries.